Judging Freedom - Facebook turns over private chats to Police

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

Facebook turned over to cops the private chats between Nebraska mom and her 17-year-old daughter that outlined their plan to carry out at-home abortion https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... #facebook #privacySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Save $80 with code SPACE80 at Talkspace.com. Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for judging freedom today is wednesday august 10 2022 it's about 11 20 in the morning here in the east coast of the united states we learned this morning that yesterday or not yesterday we learned that this came out yesterday. Facebook surrendered the text messages between a mother and their daughter in which they were in Nebraska conspiring to get abortion pills for the daughter so that she could take the pills to expel the fetus in her womb in a state in which abortion is illegal. I've already given at length my view on abortion, that the fetus in the womb is a person and abortion kills a living human being. What is troubling about this is Facebook. The police somehow learned that the mother and the daughter were communicating with each other over this issue, and they got a search warrant and served it on Facebook. Now, when Facebook receives a search warrant, they're not supposed to comply with it. They are supposed to inform, this applies to everybody, they are supposed to inform the

person whose records the search warrant commands that such a search warrant has been received to give that person the opportunity to hire a lawyer and quash, meaning squash, get rid of the search warrant. Same thing with your bank, your doctor, your lawyer, whoever has records about you, your telephone company. If they receive a search warrant for your records, the proper procedure is for them to tell you, hey, we have a search warrant for your records, the proper procedure is for them to tell you, hey, we have a search warrant for your fill in the blank, medical records, phone records, text messages, emails, whatever it may be. And we're going to comply with it in 10 days. Here's a copy of it. If you don't want us to comply with it, it's your burden to go and hire a lawyer

and have a judge scrutinize whether or not we should do this and perhaps invalidate the warrant. The only people that do this on their own for you that I'm aware of? Apple. Apple, if they receive a search warrant, they will move to quash it on their own for you. But not everybody else does. So be careful where your personal equipment, your personal messages are reposed, or the police will get them without you even knowing about it. The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment

is to keep the government off our backs, to prevent the government from entering our homes, as happened to former President Trump, or entering our thoughts, as will happen if they get inside of this. They have to show probable cause of crime in order to do it. But in a non-emergency case where they're not invading the House like they did to the former president, but they're just downloading data that is stored by a third

person. And it's your data. You're entitled to know ahead of time that the government wants it, and you're entitled to challenge the government's needs. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.